And I go back into the office, which is now a building and now the office that I ultimately worked in for 43 years. And again he tells me that the animals are gonna be arriving anytime now, and you need to be ready, you know, for that phone call to come down here and just take care of these animals. I never got the phone call. So, I started asking my professors, “You know what, should I work in a zoo?” I mean, and it was very mixed. Half of them said, “No, don’t do it,” and the other half said, “Hey, a job’s a job, you know. Try it out and see if you like it.” So I graduated. I graduated in the summer of ’72. Cleared out my dorm room, drove down to Columbia, and the next day went out to the zoo, and I said, “I’m here.” And he said, “Well, good, we don’t have any animals, and I can’t employ you right now.” So I guess he saw the expression on my face.
